These days, every chatshow host seems to have a gimmick for interviewing guests. Graham Norton’s red chair is probably the tamest, since he doesn’t actually consign the guests to their doom, but it’s there. I’ll mention it. James Corden, of course, not only has Carpool Karaoke for interviewing singers, he gets his film star guests to act out their entire careers.
But Anika Moa has probably the oddest approach of all. A singer and chatshow host on New Zealand’s Maori Television, she gets guests to answer questions… while they’re wearing a dental retainer. Here’s Lucy Lawless giving it a whirl, for example.
No, I don’t know if it’s the same one each time or whether they sterilise it afterwards.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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